轻量级桌面程序数据库不太适合用SQLServer、MySQL之类的重量级数据库，嵌入式数据库更好。在对比Access、SQLite、Firebird数据库后发现SQLite较另外两个有较多优点。

环境：.NET Framework 3.5、windows11 64位、Visual Studio 2010.

C#使用SQLite需要从SQLite官网下载DLL组件。

下载地址：https://system.data.sqlite.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/downloads.wiki

下载后将包解压放到一个固定目录，需要依赖System.Data.SQLite.dll和SQLite.Interop.dll这两个文件，

在项目里右键项目 > 添加引用 > 选“浏览”选项卡，找到解压后的目录，引入System.Data.SQLite.dll，另一个文件SQLite.Interop.dll不可以通过引用方式添加，必须只能复制文件到运行目录下，通过调试发现程序会自动把System.Data.SQLite.dll也复制到运行目录下，System.Data.SQLite.dll和SQLite.Interop.dll文件会在一起。（尝试过直接复制这两个文件到程序的运行目录下不可行，Visual Studio里不管怎么刷新项目的引用列表都不会出现这两个文件，运行会报错。）

C# 中使用SQLite示例：

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SQLite;

namespace SQLiteTest
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("SQL Lite 数据库试验");
            // 连接数据库，FailIfMissing=false时若文件不存在会自动创建
            string connStr = "Data Source=test.db;Version=3;Pooling=true;FailIfMissing=false;";
            SQLiteConnection conn = new SQLiteConnection(connStr);
            conn.Open();

            //在指定数据库中创建一个table
            string sql = "create table highscores (name varchar(20), score int)";
            SQLiteCommand command = new SQLiteCommand(sql, conn);
            command.ExecuteNonQuery();

            // 插入一些数据
            sql = "insert into highscores (name, score) values ('Me', 3000)";
            command = new SQLiteCommand(sql, conn);
            command.ExecuteNonQuery();

            sql = "insert into highscores (name, score) values ('Myself', 6000)";
            command = new SQLiteCommand(sql, conn);
            command.ExecuteNonQuery();

            sql = "insert into highscores (name, score) values ('And I', 9001)";
            command = new SQLiteCommand(sql, conn);
            command.ExecuteNonQuery();

            // 查询数据
            sql = "select * from highscores order by score desc";
            command = new SQLiteCommand(sql, conn);
            SQLiteDataReader reader = command.ExecuteReader();
            while (reader.Read())
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Name: " + reader["name"] + "\tScore: " + reader["score"]);
            }
        }
    }
}

 一般建表使用文本文件，不使用代码建（build.sql）：

-- admin表
create table admin (
  id nvarchar(32) primary key,
  admin_account nvarchar(32) not null,
  password nvarchar(32) not null
);

-- file表
create table file (
  id nvarchar(32) primary key,
  user_account nvarchar(32) not null,
  user_name nvarchar(32) not null,
  file_path nvarchar(256) not null,
  upload_start_time timestamp,
  upload_end_time timestamp,
  upload_ip nvarchar(20),
  file_md5 nvarchar(32),
  file_size integer,
  file_suffix nvarchar(4)
);

-- file_remove_history表
create table file_remove_history (
  id nvarchar(32) primary key,
  user_account nvarchar(32) not null,
  user_name nvarchar(32) not null,
  file_path nvarchar(256) not null,
  upload_start_time timestamp,
  upload_end_time timestamp,
  upload_ip nvarchar(20),
  file_md5 nvarchar(32),
  file_size integer,
  file_suffix nvarchar(4),
  remove_user nvarchar(20),
  remove_time timestamp
);

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SQLite;
using System.IO;

namespace U8FileBackupServer
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        
        string dbFile = System.Environment.CurrentDirectory + "\\xxx.db";

        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

            if (!File.Exists(dbFile))
            {
                Console.WriteLine("文件不存在，执行创建。");
                SQLiteConnection.CreateFile(dbFile);
                // 连接数据库，FailIfMissing=false时若文件不存在也会自动创建
                SQLiteConnection conn = new SQLiteConnection("Data Source=" + dbFile + ";Version=3;Pooling=true;FailIfMissing=false;");
                conn.Open(); // 打开连接

                // 建表
                string sqlText = new StreamReader(System.Environment.CurrentDirectory + "\\build.sql").ReadToEnd();
                Console.WriteLine("= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =");
                Console.WriteLine(sqlText);
                Console.WriteLine("= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =");
                SQLiteCommand cmd = new SQLiteCommand(sqlText, conn);
                cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
                conn.Close(); // 关闭连接
            }
            
            SQLiteConnection conn1 = new SQLiteConnection("Data Source=" + dbFile + ";Version=3;Pooling=true;FailIfMissing=true;");
            conn1.Open();
　　　　　　　　// 插入一些数据
            string sql = "insert into admin (id, admin_account, password) values ('111', '管理员', 'admin')";
            SQLiteCommand command = new SQLiteCommand(sql, conn1);
            command.ExecuteNonQuery();
　　　　　　　　// 查询数据
            sql = "select * from admin";
            command = new SQLiteCommand(sql, conn1);
            SQLiteDataReader reader = command.ExecuteReader();
            while (reader.Read())
            {
                Console.WriteLine("admin_account: " + reader["admin_account"] + "\tpassword: " + reader["password"]);
            }

            conn1.Close();

        }
    }
}

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